Word: feud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gatti's coming gave promise of many ructions. He was an Italian, the first Italian to direct at the Metropolitan. There had long been a New York opera feud between the Italians and the Germans. At the first mention of the new impresario it blazed to new heights. The Germans were powerful and combative. Large sections of the New York musical world concurred with them indignantly that the rule of an Italian would mean the ruin of Wagnerian opera at the Metropolitan. Gatti, too, had a reputation for keeping singers sternly under discipline. The singers at the Metropolitan, like most...
...real race horse, and blown with pride of possession, deliberately does himself out of a considerable bit of dishonest money for the pleasure of seeing his horse win. A Hedonist etches the collapse of a would-be laughing satyr whose avoirdupois is too much for his intentions. A Feud deals with unnecessary hatred and the wreckage it makes...
Last Spring Jeritza returned after her second New York season, and Vienna greeted her with a tremendous ovation. Her feud with the tenor assumed larger proportions. The first excitement came when he refused to sing a performance of La Tosca with her in May. The composer, Puccini, had come to Vienna to direct his Manon Lescaut. He took a hand in the disturbance, effected a partial reconciliation between the angry singers. They appeared in La Tosca together...
...CHILDREN OF THE MOON-An eerie drama of the singular type ot insanity, moon madness. Also a philippic against the over-possessive mother. Brilliant performances by Henrietta Crosman, Beatrice Terry, Florence Johns. SUN UP-Wherein a pipe-smoking virago of the Carolina mountains perceives that patriotism and motherhood overshadow feud hatred. SEVENTH HEAVEN - From the sewer life of Paris to a garret honeymoon. Helen Menken, the War, and a long black whip provide most of the agitation...
...faces an opponent, however, that in three successive games has shown itself slightly superior. On May 2 this year, a pitching feud ended with a 1 to 0 Holy Cross victory, while the Purple over-came the University twice last spring, the final score in each case being...